The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release of the unstable1.5 release series. The 1.5 release series is adding new features on top ofthe 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable 1.x releaseseries of the GStreamer multimedia framework. The unstable 1.5 release serieswill lead to the stable 1.6 release series in the next weeks, and newly addedAPI can still change until that point.

They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, butat the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angelto watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the finalshowdown.

Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you cansteal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's twokinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.You dig.

rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something- be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real livemaintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might beupgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,depending on the other factors.

gst-plugins-basecontains a basic set of well-supported pluginsgst-plugins-goodcontains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred licensegst-plugins-uglycontains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for distributorsgst-libavcontains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)

You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the downloaddirectory: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/The git repository and details how to clone it can be found athttp://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/==== Homepage ====

The project's website is http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/==== Support and Bugs ====We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamerPlease submit patches via bugzilla as well.For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to thegstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.==== Developers ====GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be clonedfrom there (see link above).Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications shouldsubscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.Contributors to this release